Glauconycteris alboguttata Allen, 1917

Bates, Paul J. J., Cameron, Kenneth, Pearch, Malcolm J. & Hayes, Benjamin, 2013, A review of the bats (Chiroptera) of the Republic of Congo, including eight species new to the country, Acta Chiropterologica 15 (2), pp. 313-340 : 323-324

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3161/150811013X678955

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332314

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/837C87DB-FF9F-C076-FF7A-FD4CFD83FE99

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Glauconycteris alboguttata Allen, 1917
status

 

Glauconycteris alboguttata Allen, 1917 View in CoL

Striped butterfly bat

Glauconycteris alboguttata Allen, 1917: 449 View in CoL ; Medje, Oriental, Democratic Republic of Congo.

New material

HZM.1.40172 , ♀, 29 July, 2012, Airport Road , Lekoumou, 2°45.724’S, 13°34.953’E GoogleMaps . This is the first record for Congo ( Appendix I View APPENDIX ). According to Happold and Happold (2013), this species is ‘very rarely collected’ throughout its range in Africa.

Description

A medium-small bat with a forearm length of 39.5 mm ( Table 2 View TABLE ) and a characteristic pelage colour. The dorsal surface is dark brown but with a patch of pure white hairs at the base of each humerus and with a narrow, discontinuous stripe of white hairs on each flank, which extends from the shoulder as far as the hind leg. The ventral pelage is slightly paler than the dorsal surface. The muzzle, chin, sides of the face, and ear (inner surface and upper part of outer surface) are nearly naked and very pale, almost white. Each tragus, which is also pale, is short with a concave anterior border, a rounded posterior border, and a basal notch ( Fig. 8A View FIG ). The outer border of the wing, the forearms and digits are light brown above and nearly white below. The skull has a greatest length of 13.50 mm ( Table 3 View TABLE ). It is broad with a small rostrum and a greatly inflated braincase ( Fig. 9B View FIG ). The first upper incisor (I 2) is robust, with a very small secondary cusp; the second (I 3) is unicuspid and minute ( Fig. 9B View FIG ). The upper premolar (P 4) is between half and two-thirds the crown area of first molar (M 1) ( Fig. 9B View FIG ). The third molar (M 3) has three commissures. The lower incisors are tricuspidate; the middle cusp of I 2 and I 3 is considerably larger than the lateral cusps; I 3 greatly exceeds I 2 in size, which in turn exceeds I 1. The first lower premolar (P 2) is half the crown area and one-third the height of the second (P 4); both teeth have a poorly-defined cingular cusp on the anterior, interior cingulum.

Taxonomic notes

Currently there are no recognised subspecies (or named forms) referred to this species ( Simmons, 2005; Happold and Happold, 2013).

HZM

Museum of Natural History (Hrvatski Zooloski Muzej)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Mammalia

Order

Chiroptera

Family

Vespertilionidae

Genus

Glauconycteris

Loc

Glauconycteris alboguttata Allen, 1917

Bates, Paul J. J., Cameron, Kenneth, Pearch, Malcolm J. & Hayes, Benjamin 2013
2013
Loc

Glauconycteris alboguttata

Glauconycteris alboguttata Allen, 1917: 449
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